cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Uber paid 20-year-old Florida man to keep data breach secret
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cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What coding challenge sites should I try next?
Maybe just skip the game sites.
Go to github, find a project that you find interesting and relevant to your position.
Take a look at the open bugs and try to fix some. Even if you don't feel comfortable sending a pull request you can learn a lot by going through the whole process on a real project.
Alternatively, take a look at the recent commits and what they fix...
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
I think what you'd find is that people would just start using a different service which didn't treat them like children.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture will speed up computers
The concept goes back to at least '71
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry
Where is "here" for you? California is a big state, and outside some major cities traffic is not the issue you make it out to be. CA also has world class roads for enthusiasts.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Shimano wants to make your bike as smart as your car
We can totally have both "old" bikes and new ones.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Shimano wants to make your bike as smart as your car
This is the second comment in this thread criticizing the biopace, what exactly was the problem with it? It seems to me that the oval chainring is seeing a resurgence lately (in the MTB community at least).
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: The war to sell you a mattress
Spot on, That's a great analogy!
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Could a clientside script redirect /news to /news?p=(random n in range(1..10)?
Yes. One example:
window.location = '/news?p=' + parseInt( (Math.random() * 10) + 1)cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack
Something's doesn't sound quite right over at Equifax, I would have thought that with the scale of the last breach a full and thorough audit of all existing systems would have been a major priority!
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Money Is Not Enough
No, my point is they don't have to move. Housing for the homeless afaik is largely entirely voluntary, and one of the big issues in my understanding is that, even when available, some will choose (for various reasons) not to use it. Making it available elsewhere will make it even less likely one would accept the help, and even if they did it wouldn't address the issue in the area being discussed.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Money Is Not Enough
You're discussing criminal behavior. California has policies and institutions in place to deal with criminal behavior. They're not perfect, but that's an entirely different discussion.
Suggesting that the entire homeless population are criminals is disingenuous at best, and this kind of fear-mongering distracts from productive discussion about how best to help.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Money Is Not Enough
I was fairly certain that forced relocation was generally not tolerated in the US anymore until I read your comment and the sibling comment suggesting the same thing.
These are human beings, and suggesting they be "moved" to different areas because of their socioeconomic status or being "Elderly, Mentally Unstable, Substance Addicted" is completely unacceptable to me.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Money Is Not Enough
The simple answer is so they're no longer homeless. Less expensive housing already exists in other places. People, for various reasons, choose to remain in Los Angeles.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Reported difficulties getting help on Equifax's phone lines
I believe Equifax dropped the credit freeze charge due to the backlash [0]. The other reporting agencies may still charge however.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/your-money/equifax-fee-wa...
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by 2032
Obsolete does not mean nonexistent.
If the goal as the article claims is to "phase out all petrol and diesel car sales", then obsolete seems about right.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where to start with CSS?
I think the SMACSS doc is worth a read:
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan
Assuming the OP is referencing the "Gardner Island hypothesis", there's a couple of references on the wikipedia page synopsis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart#Speculation_on_...
This one in particular is an interesting read:
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Regex Puzzle
Interstingly, Bletchly Park is known to have used crossword puzzles published in The Daily Telegraph as a recruitment tool for "codebreakers" during WWII.
cag_ii | 8 years ago | on: Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
I like running ossec on my linux boxes:
* ossec - https://ossec.github.io/
Also worth looking at:
* chkrootkit - http://www.chkrootkit.org/
* rkhunter - http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/
Doesn't sound like a typical bug bounty to me.